Glove



H. I. SEELY.

GLOVE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16. 1919.

1,358,791; v PatentedNov. 16,1920.

- WITNESSES IN VE IV TOR UN-ETED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HART IRVING SEELY, OF.WAVERLY, NEW YORK.

GLOVE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HART IRVING SEELY, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of lVaverly, in the county of Tioga' and State of NewYork, have invented a newand Improved Glove, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

It is a well-known fact that gloves, and more particularly heavyworkmens gloves,

usually made of leather or a similar material, are inclined to breakalong the lines of joining, which usually consists of stitching withcotton thread at the parts where they are subjected to the greateststrain and wear.

The joint which undoubtedly is subjected to the heaviest strain is theconnection between the palm and thumb blanks; and it quite often occurs,as is well known, that an otherwise serviceable glove must be discarded,or repaired in an inefficient manner, due to the fact that this seam orjoint has an opening caused by strains and wear thereon.

l'Vith a view of overcoming this defect, I have provided a connectionwhich is to be employed in the construction of gloves more particularlyintended for engineers, firemen, etc., which serves to join the palm andthumb blanks together in such a manner that this connection will holdthese two parts in proper relationship one with respect to the otheruntil the glove has cutlived its usefulness.

Further, it might be found that the means employed in joining the palmand thumb blanks would have a tendency to become dislodged unlesssecurely fastened in place, and with this in mind I have constructed aglove which may have said securing means an integral part of either thethumb or palm blank. n Reference is had to the attached sheet OIdrawings which illustrates one practical embodiment of my invention, andin which- Figure 1 is a bottom view of a glove showing applied theretothe constructlon utilized to produce the aforementioned result;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fi 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along-line 33 of the samefigure; and

Fig. 4; is an enlarged plan view of a thumb blank constructed inaccordance with my invention.

Patented Nov. 16, 1920.

Application filed September 16, 1919. Serial No. 324,131.

In all of these views like referencenumerals designate similar parts,and the reference numeral l indicates a glove which may be convenientlyprovided with a gauntlet, such as 2, of any desired construction.

Due to grasping of tools, levers and articles which are sometimes veryhot, the connection between the palm 3 and thumb 4 of stitching 5 is, asaforestated, very often broken. To remove this defect I perforate thethumb blank adjacent its palm edge, as indicated by the referencenumerals 6, and provide the underor overlying portions of the palm 3with corresponding perforations.

To this end I provide a lacer 7, which may be threaded through theperforations 6 of both the palm, and thumb, in addition to the rows ofstitching 5, and preferably, as glearly shown in Fig. 1, between thesame. it will readily be appreciated that by thus providing a connectionof this type between the palm and thumb of a glove it will be virtuallyimpossible for the one to become separated with respect to the otherbefore the glove has outlived its usefulness.

The lacer 7, with a view of economy and simplicity, is conveniently madeof an integral part of the thumb 4:, and may readily be formed, asclearly shown in Fig. 4, by slitting the thumb blank between that edgeadjacent to which the perforations 6 are formed, and the perforations ofsuch slit preferably extending parallel to such edge whereby to form thelacer 7 The slit terminates at a point substantially in line with saidperforations 6 so that one end of the lacer may be conveniently retainedin fixed position with respect to the thumb blank 4: indicated by thereference numeral 8, cutting from the body of the same but permitting aconnection to remain between the upper end of the lacer and the thumb,as indicated by the reference numeral 8. As shown in Fig. 2, stitching 5may serve to retain the lower end of the lacer in fixed position.

From the above it will be appreciated that I have constructed a glovewhich is unusually strong and which may be cut in such a manner as toentail virtually no additional expense for the reinforcement provided.It will further be understood that by the aforementioned construction Ihave invented a method of joining the palm and thumb blanks of a glovein such a manner that the glove itself will be practically heat-, fire,acid-, and Water-proof, in view of the fact that the leather lace iscapable of Withstanding any reasonable amount of Wear incident tocontact with these elements, Which Would not be the case Where a threadalone is used to join these two portions, in View of the fact that anyexceptional amount of heat, or of any of the above elements named, willact extremely detrimental to thread, resulting in a breaking of the sameand the parting of the thumb and palm blanks.

As Will be readily understood, any number of modifications in thearrangement of my lacer and its method of attachment may readily beresorted to Without in the least departing from the scope of myinvention.

aving thus described my invention, I desire to .claim and secure byLetters Patent: I

A glove including overlapping thumb and palm portions having a line ofregistering HART IRVING sEELY.

